That's all pretext anyway. The reality is that they do not want to share any market segments with any competitors, and they will attempt to destroy any and all competition through any means at their disposal. That may be rhetoric, regulatory capture, espionage, etc.

These companies aren't athletes that love competition, they are sharks that will eat their own young if they can get to them.

Fun fact: Sharks that have live births, such as the great white, usually only have one at a time because the eggs hatch internally and the first one to hatch eats the rest.

But making some people richer, which is the only thing that matters.

Will this system be able to shoot down Russia's fancy new nuclear powered nuke?

Yes. Quaise is doing demos of their microwave drilling rig now. With technology like that, pretty much all those coal burning plants could be repurposed to use geothermal produced steam with minimal capital expenditure. That reminds me, I should buy some stock in that company.

"diversity would be a natural emerging property of a just and well run society."

Concur.

Do you think that the white nationalists are going to get us there?

I see them dismantling the current system, while saying something about hiring on merit only. At the same time I see the current administration, and the sheer number of people who have been appointed to positions of power who were very clearly not qualified in any way for those positions, and understand that "merit" means something different to them.

My employer, and many others, could justifiably fire my for giving out my credentials to some third party.

I read some of this, and what I got out of what I did read was something like "everything is a data source," and "we're gonna let you query those guys in fancy ways, possibly with joins involved" and then "you can look at the results...in a UI with, wait for it, a tree view."

I can already go to my relational DB of choice, and query across multiple databases, and pretty much anything that exposes data in a ODBC compliant sort of way, and I can already visualize the resulting data sets in a number of different way, including a visual tree or graph view.

Did I miss something while skimming through those 30-odd pages in 5 minutes?

Yeah, if it's daytime 100% of those 354 days.

The quote says it's about both.

How about removing the additional $40 billion in subsidies the BIg Beautiful Bill added for the fossil fuel industry over the next 10 years and instead subsiding something more sustainable. Or better yet, remove all current subsidies from the fossil fuel industry, and see where the market goes...The unsubsidized price of gas would make even unsubsidized EV prices make sense.

The idea that Trump has any honor at all, let alone enough to "fall on his own sword" is so far beyond justified by any of his past actions or statements that no response other than ridicule is warranted.

BEVs are incredibly much less likely to catch fire than ICE vehicles, and there are fewer of them...so I expect Fox opinion shows to be pushing this conspiracy bullshit hard for the foreseeable future. This because they don't care about actual journalism...they're strictly entertainment, and they know their audience.

Move to Pittsburgh, PA. The average home price is around $250K, and you get the traffic for free.

I'm assuming this method could be implemented onboard a sufficiently large ship, and would provide a source of revenue to fund continuing cleanup efforts.

I mean, most things you recycle these days go straight to a landfill. It'd be nice for them to actually be recycled, since you put forth the effort.